Willie Nelson Live at the Paradiso Theater, Amsterdam, Holland

The concert, that made yours truly, into a country music fan.  Willie Nelson & Family.  Saw Willie, perform, at Northrop Auditorium on the campus of the University of Minnesota, in 2002, and credit Willie, for making me into a country music fan, and also, being a big influence as a guitar player.  Here he is, playing the Paradiso Theater, in Amsterdam, Holland, in the year 2000, playing so many of the great songs, from several of his best known records, be they originals, or covers, usually by legends from the jazz or country genre.  The band lineup:

Willie Nelson: guitar & vocals
Jody Payne: guitar & vocals
Jackie King: guitar
Bobbi Nelson: piano
Dan "Bee" Spears: bass
Mickey Raphael: harmonica (diatonic & chromatic)
Paul English: drums
Billy English: percussion

The set list & song notes

1. Whiskey River (Johnny Bush cover)
2. Stay A Little Longer (Bob Wills cover)
3. Goodhearted Woman
4. Funny How Time Slips Away+
5. Crazy^
6. Night Life* (these three tunes, were written, by Willie, in the span, of a week)
7. Help Me Make It Through The Night (Kris Kristofferson cover)
8. Georgia On A Fast Train (Billy Joe Shaver cover)
9. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain (Fred Rose cover)
10. Blue Skies (Irving Berlin cover)
11. Georgia On My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael & Stuart Gorrell cover, made famous also, by Ray Charles)
12. All of Me (jazz standard, written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons in 1931)
13. Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parrish cover: the melody written in 1927, with lyrics, added two years later, in 1929)
14. Me & Paul (autobiographical tune, written by Willie, about the travels of himself, and drummer Paul English, on the road for so many years)
15. The Gypsy (jazz song, written by Nelson, & Jackie King)
16. If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time (Lefty Frizzell cover)
17. My Bucket's Got A Hole In It (Hank Williams cover)
18. Jambalaya (On The Bayou) (Hank Williams cover)
19. I'm Walkin' The Floor Over You (Ernest Tubb cover)
20. Nuages (a cover of the instrumental, made famous by Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt).
21. Seven Spanish Angels
22. City of New Orleans (Steve Goodman cover, on Goodman's self-titled 1971 album, produced in part, by Kris Kristofferson).
23. To All The Girls I've Loved Before
24. Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics of Love) (Bobby Emmons & Chips Moman cover... a tune covered by both Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, at the height of country music's "outlaw" movement).
25. Whiskey River (reprise)
26. Still Is Still Moving To Me
27. Milk Cow Blues (Sleepy John Estes cover)
28. Pancho & Lefty (Townes van Zant cover)
29. Till I Gain Control Again (Rodney Crowell cover)
30. Mamas Don't Let Your Baby's Grow Up To Be Cowboys (recorded by Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings, during the "Outlaw" movement, and written by Ed and Patsy Bruce).
31. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
32. On The Road Again
33. Always On My Mind (a standard of country music also recorded by Elvis Presley, John Wesley Ryles, and others)
34. I Never Cared For You
35. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
36. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms